Evil-Favoredness
Evil-Favoredness
e-v’l-faverd-nes
The word is the translation of the Hebrew , dabhar ra, lit evil thing, and refers to the ritual unfitness for sacrifice of any animal which, though included in the class of clean beasts, yet possesses a blemish (see the word), or otherwise lacks beauty of symmetry, or is lean-fleshed (Deu 17:1 the King James Version; compare ill blemish, Deu 15:21). We find these conditions combined in Gen 41:3, Gen 41:4, Gen 41:19, Gen 41:20, Gen 41:21, Gen 41:27, where the seven ill-favored and lean-fleshed kine of Pharaoh’s dream are mentioned.